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General managers' meetings may pit Red Wings GM Ken Holland against the Brian Burke brigade
Snapshots — ... to the crossbar, they probably would. Regrettably, as the Toronto Sun's Lance Hornby notes, Holland and the NHL's more progressive GM's face a nasty, "belligerent and truculent" group of hard-line hawks in Hockey Hall of Fame inductee Lou Lamoriello, NHL disciplinarian Colin "Keep your head up" Campbell, and Toronto Maple Leafs GM Brian Burke, who seems to revel in making Don Cherry sound like something other than a hockey dinosaur (though the CBC has done its best to make sure that Mike Milbury issues the NHL's party line on a weekly basis): ...

Doing the Monday Linkage
Fang's Bites — ... the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel writes that the so-called NFL TV experts felt Green Bay had a walk in the park against Tampa Bay yesterday. Dusty Saunders of the Denver Post talks with Monday Night Football Director of Information and noted Elias Sports Bureau executive Steve Hirdt. Tom Hoffarth in the Los Angeles Daily News provides the sports calendar for SoCal this week. Bruce Dowbiggin of the Toronto Globe and Mail feels CBC's Mike Milbury was being hard headed about head shots in the NHL. Chris Zelkovich of the Toronto Star ...